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spots appeared on them. By degrees the whole foot 

 became swollen and black. The pain, which was now 

 chiefly in her toes, was, as she said, as if dogs were 

 gnawing her. The blackness and swelling advanced 

 upwards by slow degrees, till they reached the knee, 

 where the flesh broke, and a great discharge followed. 

 In a little time the flesh of her leg putrified and came off 

 at the ankle, together with the whole foot, leaving the 

 leg-bones bare. Her other foot and leg were affected in 

 a few days, and decayed, nearly by the same degrees and 

 in the same manner. She had then an abscess formed in 

 one of her thighs. In a subsequent note it is stated that 

 this girl, who had sat for fourteen weeks in a chair, and 

 for seven days without any feet, or flesh on her leg-bones, 

 had at length consented to have the bones taken off. 



Mary, the mother, was seized within a few hours of her 

 daughter's first seizure with the same violent pain under 

 her left foot, or, as she sometimes said, in her left leg. 

 Her toes, foot, and leg were affected in the same manner 

 as her daughter's ; and in a few days her other leg and 

 foot suffered in like manner. The flesh of one leg had 

 separated, and come off at the knee, leaving the bones 

 bare, which she would not suffer to be taken off. The 

 other foot had rotted off at the ankle. Her hands and 

 part of her arms were, from the first attack, without sen- 

 sation, and her fingers contracted. In a subsequent letter 

 it is stated that the mother " still remains in bed with 

 her leg-bones bare, which she will not suffer to be taken 

 off." 



In four or five days after the eldest daughter and the 

 mother were first affected, Elizabeth, aged fourteen years, 

 Sarah, aged ten, Eobert, aged six, and Edward, aged four, 

 were all taken on the same day with violent pains in the 

 feet and legs, chiefly in the left. 



Elizabeth was seized only in one leg and foot, which, 

 during three weeks, she could not set on the ground, but 

 stood all the time on the other foot, leaning against the 



